10nm Chips Promise Lower CostsBlog 6/15/2015 38 commentsThe challenges in the supply chain logistics for semiconductors continue to increase, but the 10nm node will give one more opportunity to gain large benefits from technology scaling.

Smart Glasses Strap On ARNews & Analysis 6/10/2015 Post a commentEmerging technologies like AR comes with a series of challenges and opportunities, executives from smart glasses and AR device companies said during a session. Still, as additional use cases develop the possibilities are endless.

Simulate Your Buck-Converter Control LoopBlog 6/8/2015 2 commentsStabilizing the control loop of a voltage-mode (VM) or current-mode (CM) buck converter can be confusing, even intimidating, to non-power engineers. This article shows simple VM and CM SPICE simulation models that can predict your results with accuracy and provide a deeper understanding of key power block functions.

IBM Renting Its EDA ToolsNews & Analysis 6/7/2015 5 commentsEver since IBM started designing systems over 100 years ago, it has used it own internally developed toolkits, the envy of designers who have to use brand-x electronic design automation (EDA) suites. Now IBM is renting the use of its famous tools online at one-half the price of licensing brand-x tools.

FPGAs Ride HP’s MoonshotNews & Analysis 5/28/2015 18 commentsSRC Computers announced a new FPGA server card that Hewlett-Packard will sell as an option for its processor-agnostic Moonshot servers.

SoC From Russia With MIPSNews & Analysis 5/27/2015 7 commentsBaikal Electronics of Russia, announced its T1, the first chip to use MIPS Warrior cores, will take on Broadcom and others in WiFi routers and home gateways.

Smartwatch Uptick in Mobile SlumpNews & Analysis 4/23/2015 3 commentsSmartwatches could grow to sales of 400 million units a year by 2019 when smartphone and tablet sales slump to single-digit levels, said a market watcher.

Mentor Graphics Drives ISPD ContestNews & Analysis 4/6/2015 1 commentThe contest winners for the Association for Computing Machinery's ACM's) International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) are enumerated as well as Kurt Antreich who was honored for his outstanding achievements.

Analog EDA Finally AutomatedNews & Analysis 4/1/2015 8 commentsReutlingen University has created automated techniques for designing analog circuits, the technology for which it transferred to Cadence, and Rob Rutenbar at the University of Illinois in Urbana described how to convince analog designers use the new tools.

Ericsson on Power: We Need To Rethink StructureNews & Analysis 3/25/2015 Post a commentNext-generation cellular communications will require a drastic reduction in energy consumption, something researchers at Ericsson are calling “ultra-lean transmission.” A focus on power management software could alleviate some of these issues.

Imagination Sees Life Beyond GamesNews & Analysis 1/23/2015 4 commentsImagination Technologies continues to hedge its bets on graphics-based processing, showcasing a variety of demonstrations based on its PowerVR GPU at International CES.

Nvidia Drives Tegra to TFlopsNews & Analysis 1/5/2015 4 commentsNvidia kicked off International CES, held here Jan. 6-9, with three major announcements for mobile and automotive computing. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled the Tegra X1, a 256-core "mobile superchip" with more than a teraflop of processing power and 16-bit floating point.

Silicon Startups Get IncubatorNews & Analysis 12/9/2014 10 commentsSilicon Catalyst aims to help about 10 semiconductor startups produce their first chips in 2015, leveraging partnerships with Keysight, Synopsys, and TSMC.

Smart Panel Ponders AI's FutureNews & Analysis 12/9/2014 7 commentsArtificial intelligence is well on its way to entering the market by 2025, but it may look different then much of the public has imagined. AI could give systems the ability to talk to each other quickly and simply, or reason and make inferences.

IBM Plugs Partners Into PowerNews & Analysis 12/8/2014 9 commentsIBM's Open Power Foundation is playing significant roles in the Coral supercomputer program, efforts to find new uses for flash memory, and the proliferation of Power processors in China and beyond.

In conjunction with unveiling of EE Times’ Silicon 60 list, journalist & Silicon 60 researcher Peter Clarke hosts a conversation on startups in the electronics industry. One of Silicon Valley's great contributions to the world has been the demonstration of how the application of entrepreneurship and venture capital to electronics and semiconductor hardware can create wealth with developments in semiconductors, displays, design automation, MEMS and across the breadth of hardware developments. But in recent years concerns have been raised that traditional venture capital has turned its back on hardware-related startups in favor of software and Internet applications and services. Panelists from incubators join Peter Clarke in debate.